Austria Figures Electronic Vote Counting Machines Were Fingered by Cosmic Rays

Austria Figures Electronic Vote Counting Machines Were Fingered by Cosmic Rays

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An electronic vote-counting machine in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, declared that 4096 more people had cast their vote than the ballot slips testified. The machine had been thoroughly tested and deemed perfect. So what went wrong? Scientists pointed the finger of blame at cosmic rays which can wreak havoc with highly sensitive microelectronic circuits.

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